A new look for Austerity…The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification ”Austerity Britain” in the late 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and aspiration. It traces how, set against the Labour government”s philosophy of ”Austerity by design” in a climate of post-war idealism, the desire for affordable fashionable clothing, access to leisure, and the health, time and money to enjoy them became totemic symbols of post-war ambition that impelled new strategies of state control and consumer agency. The book examines the immediate post-war period – its politics, its fashions and its people – in new ways and on its own terms as a critical tipping point in the making of modern Britain.
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